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the decision to start using the national guard as a way to avoid instituting the draft for the various colonial adventures undertaken by reactionary administrations these days is yet another gift that keeps on giving from the reagan period. there are a bunch of others as well, like building a legal apparatus around fema that enables martial law to be imposed in principle...good ole ronny, spokesmodel of the counter-revolution. what an asshat.
i will say that the clip above does not particularly alarm me simply because the bush people are in such a politically weak position now that i don't see a scenario, short of maybe taking a page from the playbook of the algerian fln and staging an attack that could be blamed on the Other, that would allow for such an action without entailing a wholesale collapse of whatever legitimacy remains, not just domestically but internationally.
we are stumbling through a rickety time: few houses grown rickety implode with quite the dramatic flair of an imperial house.
besides, where'd the "domestic disturbances" come from? the host of rural men who've bought guns in the last month?
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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